DR. JAYAPRAKASH MISHRA
Assistant Professor
PhD in Cultural Studies and Anthropology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Literary and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Kinship and reproduction, Films and literature
jayaprakash.mishra@thapar.edu
Dr. Jayaprakash Mishra (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India, since July 2022. Dr. Mishra specializes in Anthropology, Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Kinship and Reproduction, Ageing, and Popular Culture. He teaches a range of courses including Introduction to Cultural Studies, Culture and Ethnography, Anthropology of Popular Culture, a Writing Seminar and a Method course to the advanced undergraduate students.
Dr. Mishra completed his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, in 2021. His dissertation examined how gay men married to women and gay men of marriageable age negotiate the social institution of marriage and family while forging intimate friendships with other men in small towns of Odisha.
On the research front, Dr. Mishra is the Principal Investigator for the "Ageing in Punjab" project, a seed-funded study that examines the experiences of older adults in relation to health, wellbeing, and transnational migration in Punjab. Dr. Mishra was also invited to be a Research Expert for the Odisha Migration Study by IIT Hyderabad, funded by the International Rice Research Institute, Malaysia, from 2022 to 2023.
Dr. Mishra has been elected as the Co-chair of the European Network of Queer Anthropology (EASA network) for the term 2022-2024. His forthcoming book monograph, provisionally titled "Intimate Entanglement: Gay Men Experiencing Marriage, Family and Intimacies in Small Town India," is currently being discussed with several international presses and is expected to be published next year. He is looking for enthusiastic PhD students and researchers to collaborate with in his areas of interest.
PUBLICATIONS
- Mishra, J. (2020). Understanding re-partnership in non-normative conjugality: narratives of gay men in Odisha, India. Journal of Family Issues, 41(7), 957-977
- Mishra, J. (2020). Queering emotion in South Asia: Biographical narratives of gay men in Odisha, India. Asian Journal of Social Science, 48(3-4), 353-374
- Mishra, J. (2021).‘Be a man or be a woman, just be with us’ Queering Kinship and Reproduction in Super Deluxe. Sociological Review.
- Mishra, J. (2018). Sexual states: governance and the struggle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. Contemporary South Asia, 26(2), 255-256
